The Origs of the Word ‘Gay’ – uTalk Blog

roots of the word gay

GAY Meang: "full of joy, merry; light-hearted, reee;" also "wanton, lewd, lasciv" (late 12c. as a surname,… See orig and meang of gay.

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GAY (ADJ.)

* roots of the word gay *

Gay (adj.

THE ORIGS OF THE WORD ‘GAY’

As a surname, Philipp Gay), om Old French gai "joyful, happy; pleasant, agreeably charmg; forward, pert; light-lored" (12c. ; pare Old Spanish gayo, Portugue ga, Italian gajo, probably French loan-words).

)) word gay by the 1890s had an overall tge of promiscuy — a gay hoe was a brothel.

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